Collecting The 20th Century

Author : Luc W. S. W. Amkreutz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789088909368
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Collecting Ancient Europe written by Luc W. S. W. Amkreutz and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In order to understand our past, we need to understand ourselves as archaeologists and our discipline. This volume presents recent research into collecting practices of European Antiquities by national museums, institutes and individuals during the 19th and early 20th-century, and the 'Ancient Europe' collections that resulted and remain in many museums.This was the period during which the archaeological discipline developed as a scientific field, and the study of the archaeological paradigmatic and practical discourse of the past two centuries is therefore of importance, as are the sequence of key discoveries that shaped our field.Many national museums arose in the early 19th century and strived to acquire archaeological objects from a wide range of countries, dating from Prehistory to the Medieval period. This was done by buying, sometimes complete collections, exchanging or copying. The networks along which these objects traveled were made up out of the ranks of diplomats, aristocracy, politicians, clergymen, military officials and scholars. There were also intensive contacts between museums and universities and there were very active private dealers.The reasons for collecting antiquities were manifold. Many, however, started out from the idea of composing impressive collections brought together for patriotic or nationalistic purposes and for general comparative use. Later on, motives changed, and in the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities became more scientifically oriented. Eventually these collections fossilized, ending up in the depots. The times had changed and the acquisition of archaeological objects from other European countries largely came to an end.This group of papers researches these collections of 'Ancient Europe' from a variety of angles. As such it forms an ideal base for further researching archaeological museum collection history and the development of the archaeological discipline.

Author : Victoria and Albert Museum
Publisher : Victoria & Albert Museum
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Impressions of the 20th Century written by Victoria and Albert Museum and published by Victoria & Albert Museum. This book was released on 2001-10 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Drawing on the V & A's magnificent collection of 20th-century prints, this concise history of printmaking is presented through the work of internationally renowned artists. Each year of the [20th] century is represented by a print or set of prints, revealing the versatility of the medium and offering insights into the development of different techniques. From etchings and woodblock prints to abstract lithographs and screenprints, this book shows how artists have been pushing forward the boundaries of the fine art print over the last 100 years."--Back cover.

Author : Adrian Franklin
Publisher : UNSW Press
ISBN 13 : 1742230016
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Collecting the 20th Century written by Adrian Franklin and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking a decade-by-decade approach, this lavishly illustrated guide to 20th-century collectibles delivers useful information in a lively and entertaining style. Each chapter provides detailed insight into a particular decade and includes two central areas of collecting from that era, whether it is ceramic bathing beauties from the 1920s, vintage clothes from the 1940s, cars from the 1950s, or Memphis design from the 1980s. Covering popular periods such as art nouveau, industrial, art deco, retro, and modern, this is an ideal companion for both serious collectors and those who want a glimpse into the world of 20th-century design.

Author : Graeme Were
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857453645
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Extreme Collecting written by Graeme Were and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By exploring the processes of collecting, which challenge the bounds of normally acceptable practice, this book debates the practice of collecting ‘difficult’ objects, from a historical and contemporary perspective; and discusses the acquisition of objects related to war and genocide, and those purchased from the internet, as well as considering human remains, mass produced objects and illicitly traded antiquities. The aim is to apply a critical approach to the rigidity of museums in maintaining essentially nineteenth-century ideas of collecting; and to move towards identifying priorities for collection policies in museums, which are inclusive of acquiring ‘difficult’ objects. Much of the book engages with the question of the limits to the practice of collecting as a means to think through the implementation of new strategies.

Author : Elizabeth Rodrigues
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472902636
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Collecting Lives written by Elizabeth Rodrigues and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2022-05-16 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a near-daily basis, data is being used to narrate our lives. Categorizing algorithms drawn from amassed personal data to assign narrative destinies to individuals at crucial junctures, simultaneously predicting and shaping the paths of our lives. Data is commonly assumed to bring us closer to objectivity, but the narrative paths these algorithms assign seem, more often than not, to replicate biases about who an individual is and could become. While the social effects of such algorithmic logics seem new and newly urgent to consider, Collecting Lives looks to the late nineteenth and early twentieth century U.S. to provide an instructive prehistory to the underlying question of the relationship between data, life, and narrative. Rodrigues contextualizes the application of data collection to human selfhood in order to uncover a modernist aesthetic of data that offers an alternative to the algorithmic logic pervading our sense of data’s revelatory potential. Examining the work of W. E. B. Du Bois, Henry Adams, Gertrude Stein, and Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Rodrigues asks how each of these authors draw from their work in sociology, history, psychology, and journalism to formulate a critical data aesthetic as they attempt to answer questions of identity around race, gender, and nation both in their research and their life writing. These data-driven modernists not only tell different life stories with data, they tell life stories differently because of data.

Author : Bruce Robinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Ebsworth Collection written by Bruce Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, the companion volume to an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the Seattle Art Museum, showcases the extraordinary collection of modern American masterworks assembled by Barney A. Ebsworth, a St. Louis businessman.The collection includes paintings, sculpture, and works on paper by artists such as Patrick Henry Bruce, Alexander Calder, Willem de Kooning, Marsden Hartley, David Hockney, Edward Hopper, Jasper Johns, Jackson Pollock, Charles Sheeler, and Wayne Thiebaud.With more than 135 illustrations and an illuminating essay by distinguished art historian Bruce Robertson, this book will be a revelation to anyone who loves 20th-century American art.

Author : Peter Mears
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292705883
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Covarrubias Circle written by Peter Mears and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York in the 1920s and 1930s was a modernist mecca that drew artists, writers, and other creators of culture from around the globe. Two such expatriates were Mexican artist and Renaissance man Miguel Covarrubias and Hungarian photographer Nickolas Muray. Their lifelong friendship gave Muray an entrée into Covarrubias's circle of fellow Mexican artists—Frida Kahlo, Rufino Tamayo, Juan Soriano, Fernando Castillo, Guillermo Meza, Roberto Montenegro, and Rafael Navarro—whose works Muray collected. This outstanding body of Mexican modernist art, now owned by the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC) at the University of Texas at Austin, forms the subject of this beautifully illustrated volume. Produced in conjunction with the Ransom Center's exhibition "Miguel Covarrubias: A Certain Clairvoyance," this volume contains color plates of virtually all the items in Nickolas Muray's collection of twentieth-century Mexican art. The majority of the works are by Covarrubias, while the excellent works by the other artists reflect the range of aesthetic shifts and modernist influences of the period in Mexico. Accompanying the plates are five original essays that establish Covarrubias's importance as a modernist impresario as influential in his sphere as Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and Jean Cocteau were in theirs. Likewise, the essays reestablish the significance of Nickolas Muray, whose success as a master of color photography, portraiture, advertising imagery, and commercial illustration has made him difficult to place within the history of photography as a fine art. As a whole, this publication of the Nickolas Muray Collection vividly illustrates the transgression of generic boundaries and the cross-fertilization among artists working in different media, from painting and photography to dance and ethnography, that gave modernism its freshness and energy. It also demonstrates that American modernism was thoroughly infused with a fervor for all things Mexican, of which Covarrubias was a principal proponent, and that Mexican modernists, no less than their American and European counterparts, answered Pound's call to "make it new."

Author : Annika Fisher
Publisher : Bard Graduate Center
ISBN 13 : 9781941792162
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Museum in the Cultural Sciences written by Annika Fisher and published by Bard Graduate Center. This book was released on 2021-02-15 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In early twentieth-century Berlin, the museumsdebate was set into motion with Wilhelm von Bode's sweeping proposal to reorganize a group of the city's museums. Between 1907 and 1910, two particularly striking series of articles appeared in the journal Museumskunde: Journal for the Administration and Technology of Public and Private Collections. The first was a six-part essay by Otto Lauffer on history museums and the second was a ten-part piece by Oswald Richter regarding ethnographic museums, and both initiated a century of important dialogue. Presented together here as Collecting, Displaying, and Interpreting Material Culture, these first full English translations of the two book-length articles remain unequalled presentations about the different implications of art, historical, and ethnographic museums. They show how sophisticated the discussion of museums and museum display was in the early twentieth century, and how much could be gained from revisiting these reflections today. Accompanied with short commentaries by a group of museum professionals, these translations and associated commentaries allow for an intervention and intensification of the current level of debate about museums, one that will further invigorated by the opening of the Humboldt Forum in Berlin in 2019.

Author : Anne W.Baker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781413417531
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Collecting Houses written by Anne W.Baker and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collecting Houses is a story about houses their cellars, attics, and everything in between. It's about houses the author has moved, dismantled, reclaimed, recorded. It's about houses Baker found hidden in the woods, houses she rescued from ignorance, greed or bureaucracy, and houses she discovered masquerading behind all sorts of disguises. It's about how a house feels to be, abandoned, condemned, moved, tinkered with, ripped apart, modernized, put on The National Registry or sent to Alaska. These are not just any houses, but very old ones, old for this country anyway. Not that Baker feels that our later houses aren´t interesting, but what she loves the most is the freshness of the very beginning: the distinctive, intangible quality that surrounds 17th and early 18th century houses. And that´s where she became rooted. Rooted in the adventure, the thrill of discovery and the tantalizing mysteries that reside behind the walls of our early American structures. Sometimes funny, sometimes sad, always instructive, Collecting Houses teaches the reader how to know an old house, how to hear its voice, how to understand its language, recognize its personalities and take care of its needs. In writing this book Baker has drawn upon 50 years experience with more than 200 antique structures in Rhode Island, southern Massachusetts and eastern Connecticut. As a restoration contractor, building archeologist, and consultant she has worked with building owners, agencies, architectural historians and State Historical Commissions. Included in this 232-page book are 77 graphics, an appendix, a glossary of building terms, and a bibliography. Collecting Houses will appeal to historians, architects, archeologists, carpenters, builders, restorers and preservationists. It will also delight anyone who wants to understand an old house or who enjoys reading about somebody else´s passion. Baker lives in Westport, Massachusetts. Book Reviews Anne Baker´s magnificent memoir tells of an intense love: it chronicles her growing passion for old houses and for the stories they can tell--if one listens to them, touches them. Baker trespasses to get close to houses; she buys honey from their owners if only to cajole them not to burn their seventeenth century paneling as firewood. She feverishly documents houses as they are about to vanish. She moves them, from New England to Alaska, if necessary. She moves about New England, never lonely, as a cloud of plaster-dust, and skin-scrapes. As this love affair began, her first, long-suffering, husband, and father of her first five children, grumbled: "Those are not the hands of a wife." But Baker was lost already, in keenly reimagining how generation upon generation of artisans worked their traditions, and adapted their styles to weather, colder than the West of England, or Wales, where the first New England carpenters came from. Baker´s memoir is not only a love story but an extraordinarily clear and beautiful account of the essentials of early New England architecture. Grace Dane Mazur, author of Trespass We Americans are reckless with our past. What we should preserve we discard. What we should protect we destroy. What we should remember we forget. In this marvelous account of her life´s work as a rescuer of early colonial structures in Southeastern Massachusetts and coastal Rhode Island, Anne W. Baker takes the measure of our losses--and celebrates those rare instances when a threatened treasure is saved for future generations. Her book is outspoken, sometimes hilarious, too often heartbreaking, and always instructive and entertaining. It is history at its liveliest and best. Llewellyn Howland III, bookseller and historian.

Author : Christopher Bedford
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780892369041
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Fran and Ray Stark Collection of 20th-century Sculpture at the J. Paul Getty Museum written by Christopher Bedford and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This catalogue celebrates the recently installed collection of twentieth-century sculpture donated to the J. Paul Getty Trust by the Fran and Ray Stark Trust in 2005. The book takes the reader on a visual tour of the J. Paul Getty Museum's new sculpture gardens and installations, which features twenty-eight works by artists such as Alexander Calder, Alberto Giacometti, Ferdinand Leger, Roy Lichtenstein, Rene Magritte, Aristide Maillol, Joan Miro, Henry Moore, and Isamu Noguchi. The book offers essays on the curatorial decisions involved in establishing harmonious groupings; a history of European and American sculpture within built outdoor environments and gardens; and catalogue entries that discuss individual pieces within their broader art-historical contexts."